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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:48 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

> (I'm not understanding what grafting has to do with breeding a new
> cultivar.... ~mIEKAL)

I understand that breeding work can be done much faster if you graft a part 
of a seedling onto a mature bearing tree - it tricks the seedling branch into 
thinking it is mature enough to fruit without waiting 7-25 years for the tree 
to actually mature.

That'd be my guess as to what grafting has to do with breeding.

Ginda